The Crisis Systems Response Training and Technical Assistance Center (CSR-TTAC) provides support to states, territories, tribal organizations, and community partners across the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline network and behavioral health crisis continuum of care. The goal of the CSR-TTAC is to support a crisis care system that is integrated, sustainable, equitable, and aligned around evidence-based and evidenced-informed practices.
Advances bi-directional and promotes full integration of primary physical and behavioral health care by providing high quality, evidence-informed T/TA to a national audience, including health systems, health care providers, members of the public, and recipients of Promoting the Integration of Primary and Behavioral Health Care grants, with a specific focus on the Collaborative Care Model.
The purpose of the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health (NTTAC) is to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) on the implementation of the systems of care (SOC) approach, delivery of mental health services, and the promotion of family voice and supports.
Improves implementation and delivery of effective substance use prevention interventions and provides T/TA services to the substance misuse prevention field, which includes prevention practitioners and the public.
Expands community services for adults who are in the criminal justice system and experiencing a mental and/or substance use disorder. Provides information and skills training to help individuals, organizations, and states implement effective, integrated programming.
Develops and maintains the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (the Network), a collaborative network structure, supports resource and policy development and dissemination, and coordinates the Network’s national child trauma education and training efforts.
Expands the availability of training in evidence-based housing and treatment models focused on adults, children, and families who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders.
Builds national capacity for preventing suicide by providing T/TA and resources to assist states, tribes, organizations, and individuals to develop suicide prevention strategies (including programs, interventions, and policies) that advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, with the overall goal of reducing suicides and suicidal behaviors in the nation.
Provides T/TA for federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, SAMHSA tribal grantees, and selected American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) communities and tribes to develop and implement a Tribal Action Plan. Helps AIAN communities build local capacity around substance use disorders, suicide prevention, and mental health using a culturally relevant, evidence-based, holistic approach.
Helps states and territories develop effective, responsive behavioral health systems for SMVF through public/private collaboration among federal, state/territorial, and local agencies. Helps states and territories establish operational interagency teams that develop strategic plans to improve behavioral health systems for SMVF via Policy Academies and Implementation and Leadership Academies.
Supports national and regional activities focused on the delivery of effective substance use disorder treatment and recovery support services by preparing tools for the specialized behavioral health and primary care workforce and providing TA to provider organizations to improve their processes and practices.
Provides national T/TA to child welfare, dependency court, and substance use treatment professionals to improve the safety, stability and recovery outcomes for children, parents, and families affected by substance use and co-occurring mental disorders and child abuse or neglect.
Enhances the capacity of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, and substance use disorder (SUD) counseling professionals to identify and treat individuals using Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medications for alcohol use disorder (MAUD).
Trains health professionals to provide effective, evidence-based, medication treatments to patients with opioid use disorder in primary care, psychiatric care, substance use disorder treatment, and pain management settings.
Coordinates SAMHSA and Administration for Community Living T/TA initiatives, facilitates dissemination of substantive information to the 57 state protection and advocacy systems, provides each federal agency with full representation opportunities for adequate discussions and consideration of its interest and concerns, and enhances each agency’s ability to monitor emergent issues and problems in the field.
Develops and disseminates culturally-informed, evidence-based behavioral health information and provides T/TA on issues related to addressing behavioral health disparities in AA, NH, and PI communities.
Develops prevention workforce skills and competencies in SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework for grantees to prevent or reduce substance misuse within a broader context of behavioral health and wellness. Delivers customized T/TA, online events, national and regional meetings, networking, and information dissemination.
Provides T/TA to Native Connections grantees related to the work of the grant, and focuses on the prevention of substance use and misuse, prevention of suicide, the promotion of mental health, and the development and implementation of Strategic Action Plans.
Ensures that students in medical and health professions programs receive substance use disorder (SUD) education on basic strategies to identify, assess, intervene, and treat addiction, support recovery and address stigma. Increases the number of health care professionals who can address the needs of persons at risk for or with SUD.
This program recruits students to careers in the behavioral health field to address mental and substance use disorders, providing training that can lead to careers in the behavioral health field, and/or preparing students for obtaining advanced degrees in the behavioral health field.
The PAIMI grant program is intended to protect and advocate for the rights of adults with Significant (Serious) Mental Illness (SMI) and children with Significant (Serious) Impairment or Emotional Disturbances (SED) through activities to ensure the enforcement of the Constitution, and Federal and State statutes.
PENTAC works with the other TA Centers to promote evidence-based care for adults with serious mental illnesses. We recognize the value of those with lived experience as an integral component of the treatment system. Our work is infused with peer values and supported by consultants who are subject matter experts.
The purpose of the CARS program is to provide trauma-informed addiction peer recovery support service training and technical assistance (TTA) to domestic public and private non-profit entities. The recipient will be expected to develop, implement, and maintain a TTA center that aligns with SAMHSA’s National Recovery Agenda.
Promotes national uptake of the CCBHC model and provides CCBHC-related TA to states to facilitate knowledge, capacity, and quality improvement for statewide CCBHC development, implementation, and advancement.
Develops and disseminates T/TA addressing opioid and stimulant use in rural communities. ROTA-R teams identify model programs, ensure provision of high-quality training, and develop and update materials related to prevention, treatment, and recovery for opioid and/or stimulant use disorders. The ROTA-R program is comprised of 10 Regional Centers, 1 located in each of the 10 HHS regions.